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Title: God, Dr. Buzzard, and the Bolito Man: A Saltwater Geechee Talks About Life on Sapelo Island by Cornelia Walker Bailey, Christena Bledsoe ISBN: 0-385-49377-0 Publisher: Anchor Books/Doubleday Pub. Date: 17 July, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.71 (7 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A great recounting of traditions and folklore
Comment: This is a great book to learn about the culture, history and traditions of a Geechee community on Sapelo Island, GA. Compared to other books I have read about this area, Ms. Bailey really focuses on the folklore and superstitions that shaped life on this isolated island during the second half of the 20th century. Although some of these traditions continue, many are fading away as this unique community shrinks in size. Ms. Bailey considers it her duty to be a storyteller, to pass these stories down to whoever will listen, and to keep the traditions alive. Ms. Bailey succeeds by telling her story with a vibrant narrative - a very fast and rewarding read.
Rating: 4
Summary: Fascinating
Comment: The Golden Isles of Georgia are mysterious and fascinating. The Spanish moss, tabby walls, the "shout" of the Sea Island Singers, and cloudy past reach out to visitors today. The author of this book, a salt-water Geechee, grew up on Sapelo. Her story is wonderfully interesting. The beliefs of the slaves' descendants were so little changed for so many years. Traditions born in western Africa are still hanging on to life even today on Sapelo. I hope the government, even in the name of saving the environment, never succeeds in taking the land away from the Geechee families who lived such true lives there. Their life deserves to continue as long as their faith lives.
Rating: 5
Summary: A magical book to read and re-read.
Comment: Part memoir, part cultural history, part plea on behalf of a fragile culture, God, Dr. Buzzard, and the Bolito Man is as affecting as the best magic realism. You do not simply read it, you savor it and absorb it into your very soul.
In the book, Cornelia Bailey, resident griot of Sapelo Island off the Georgia coast, spins the story of her growing up in that place and in a time when lives were governed equally by religion, magic, and chance. She admits us deep into the culture of her proud people and introduces us to folkways strong enough to have survived the Middle Passage and the centuries since. So it is with infinite sadness we learn that the forces of progress are rendering these same folkways as fragile as a paper-thin fig shell that washes onto the beach.
It goes without saying that God, Dr. Buzzard, and the Bolito Man will appeal to cultural historians, anthropologists, naturalists, and environmentalists. The book's strongest appeal, however, will be to lovers of lyrical prose -- and to anyone who delights in the sheer magic of the way words fall on the ear and follow one another on a page.
This is a special book, one that should find a home on every reader's short shelf of well-thumbed volumes that are read and referenced time and again.
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Title: Sapelo's People: A Long Walk into Freedom by William S. McFeely ISBN: 0393313778 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 November, 1995 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: Blue Roots: African-American Folk Magic of the Gullah People by Roger Pinckney ISBN: 156718524X Publisher: Llewellyn Publications Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Hoodoo Medicine: Gullah Herbal Remedies by Faith Mitchell, Naomi Steinfeld ISBN: 1887714332 Publisher: Summerhouse Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Hoodoo Herb and Root Magic: A Materia Magica of African-American Conjure by Catherine Yronwode ISBN: 0971961204 Publisher: Catherine Yronwode Pub. Date: 02 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Rootwork: Using the Folk Magick of Black America for Love, Money and Success by Tayannah Lee McQuillar ISBN: 0743235347 Publisher: Fireside Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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